I had the privilege on Monday night of going to see a taping of Inside the Actor’s Studio featuring Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe.  Daniel Radcliffe is one of my favorite actors; he’s a real cutie and I have a major crush on him, but I also really respect him as an actor–I’ve seen him in Equus twice and he is simply a breathtaking, impossibly convincing actor on stage.

Anyway, it was interesting to see him being interviewed by James Lipton (who I had completely forgotten, played the jail warden on my favorite TV show ever Arrested Development).  Radcliffe was totally acting like a nineteen year old guy; he was hyper and a little unfocused and very silly (apparently he takes lots of baths), and it was nice to see him acting like a kid.

But something that kept going through my mind in watching Radcliffe’s interview was that, if he were a girl, he would TOTALLY be a Supergirl.  It’s very clear that Radcliffe is a workaholic and a perfectionist in his work–you could hear it in the way he talked about his projects, and also in the mere breadth of his projects.  But it also sounds like he has a lot of pressure on him: pressure to avoid the press, to be attractive and keep his body in shape (he mentioned that after he got the part in Equus that he had to get into shape fast because he is naked for a rather long scene at the end of the play), and to pursue some kind of identity in the face of having taken a ten-year-long acting job that has really dictated a great deal of the way that people perceive him (Harry Potter, naturally).

As such, something that really struck me was Radcliffe talking about how he had very few friends his own age, and how most of his mentors and adult co-stars were his friends, rather than pursuing other teenaged and twentysomething friends.  This struck me as VERY Supergirl-esque.  I often observe that Supergirls who are very mature and very career oriented often have trouble relating to people their own age, because Supergirls are so aged by their overachieving habits that they become old beyond their years.  Sad, right?

I wonder if Dan Radcliffe’s huge acting resume has Supergirl roots.  I wonder if he is taking on all of these projects for the money, or to simply capitalize on the momentum of his career right now, or if he’s actually a little troubled.   It seems like he is taking on a loooooooot of side projects that sounds simply emotionally suffocating.

So, here’s the question of the day?  What to do when boys and men express Supergirl traits?  Are they Supergirls?  “Honorary Supergirls?”  Or–wait for it–Superboys?!